Stephane Chapheau

Stephane Chapheau (1743-??) was a French-Canadian member of the Assassins. Formerly a chef in the French army in the Seven Years' War, Chapheau became the proprietor of a restaurant in Boston and joined the Assassins after offering his serivces to Ratonhnhake'ton in gratitude for helping him.

Biography
Chapheau was born in Montreal in Lower Canada, and was a conscript in the French and Indian War in 1761. His father was a chef who had also served in the war, and joined the battlements of Quebec, and died in the Fall of Quebec of 1759. In 1764 the younger Chapheau emigrated to Boston in the Thirteen Colonies, where he founded a tavern, and was one of the men who protested the Stamp Act in 1765. Stephane became acquainted with the Freemasons such as Samuel Adams and William Molineux and assisted them in their dissent during the Intolerable Acts period of 1765-1774, and was fined on many times by British troops for brawling and drunken behavior.

In 1773 Chapheau became a public enemy for murdering a tax collector with a butcher's knife. Many collectors had come to his home to receive his taxes, but he threw his chamber pot down on them. Aided by Ratonhnhake'ton, a newly-arrived person in the city, he killed the three taxmen. A day later British troops stole everything from his home and killed the tax collector at the docks, who was asking a Negro merchant about who blew up the tea in the Harbor. Chapheau came up behind him and buried a butcher's knife in his shoulder, but when he revealed that he worked for William Johnson, Chapheau gave him a clean death with a beheading.

Meeting on a rooftop with Ratonhnhaketon, Chapheau told him that in gratitude for his help, Chapheau pledged his allegiance to the Assassins Order and was now at his service. He assisted Ratonhnhakteton in creating riots, and in 1776 captured William Thompson in the Battle of Trois-Rivieres so as to liberate the people. Stephane quickly became Ratonhnhaketon's first mate and most trusted asset.